Imagine a situation when you finally arrive at home after a hard day at work. You are tired and the only thing you wanna do right now is to eat something, take a bath and lie down on a sofa all evening watching TV. You cross the doorstep and you see a huge amount of money, around 1 milion USD and a card saying that you have to participate in the game where you have to either steal 1 milion form an appointed person or lose yours and fall in a huge debt. What would you do? The answer is obvious, go to the authorities and report a scam. Well, that what our protagonist did. Kanzaki Nao, a super honest girl, went to a lawyer and got herself fooled into playing a game she wanted to avoid. Fortunately in this deadly game she has a really powerful ally, an inteligent ex-con Akiyama Shinichi.
"Liar Game" is a psychological manga written and ilustrated by Shinobu Kaitani the author of "One Outs". That's why the manga has a peculiar style, which not everyone might like. I personally enjoyed his drawings and can't imagine this work with a diffrent art. There are moments where characters have really odd expression and I don't think that is purposeful though.
In LG you will meet various characters and many of them have their own motives, and well-written background. We got a trap, a con artist, a foolishly honest girl and even cult members. They are gonna participate in a game divided into stages. In every stage there will be a different game and every one of them is going to be harder and will require more and more effort. You would't even think how complicated could be a game of musical chairs or a minority rule (no, not a majority rule). The comic shows us how people behave in stressful situations and when the plan is not going how it was supposed to be. I think that the main goal of this manga is to show people how they should behave in a tough situations. How greedy people are and what could they achieve by trust and teamwork.
Liar Game is without a doubt the best manga I have ever read. The variety of characters, the complexity of games and the hidden agenda makes the manga attractive for everyone who likes psychological wars.
I hope I encouraged you to take a look at LG. I also hope that there are not many mistakes in the text cause Im not a native speaker and still learning a language.
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